ap psychology gimkit terms

Mean, median, mode, and range are examples of this:

Measures of Central tendency

One applicable thing we learned from \______________________ is to never blindly follow authority

The Stanley Milgram Experiment

This experiment was critical to our progression as people AND to the ending of segregation

The Doll test

In the experiment "Deviance in the Dark" they were studying human nature by eliminating what?

Social norms and constructs

A naturalistic observation would be categorized as a \___________ research method due to its observational nature

Descriptive

A research method in which you combine many different methods and/or informational sources to gain a well rounded perspective on your subject

Case Study

A research method in which you administer a series of self report questions

Survey

A research method in which you observe your subject in their natural environment.

Naturalistic Observation

A term for things like thinking, problem solving, remembering, encoding, and communicating is:

Cognition

Study of age related changes across the lifespan

Developmental Psychology

Studies the variation of personality and related characteristics among people

Personality psychology

Involves constructing tests, analyzing results, and lots of statistics!

Psychometrics

studies how people affect and individual and how an individual affects the people around them

social psychology

Studies the relationship between people and their work environment

Industrial organizational psych

someone in this field can diagnose AND treat disorders, often referred to as "clinicians"

Clinical psych

Psychology in the justice system

Forensic Psych

works in schools doing testing, working with teachers on programs for students, and addressing social, emotional, and academic problems in students

School Psych

Which of the following people was a main contributor to behaviorism

Skinner

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it

hindsight bias

The tendency to think we know more than we do

Overconfidence

The tendency to make sense of things, or create layers to things that appear simple

Perceiving order in random events

the practice of remaining impartial, without bias or judgement, during the course of a study AND in publishing results

Value neutrality

A flawed sampling process that produces unrepresentative samples

Sampling bias

A sample that fairly represents a population because each member has an equal chance of getting chosen

random sample

a factor, other than the one being studied, that may influence the study's results

confounding variables

All those in a group being studied from which samples may be drawn

population

The factor that is being manipulated, the one that's effect on the other variable is being studied

independent variable

The outcome that is measured, the variable that is affected by the other variable

dependent variable

An integrated approach using biological, psychological, and cultural viewpoints:

Biopsychosocial approach

Skinner's box/Skinner's Rat is an example of:

Operant conditioning

Pavlov's dog is an example of:

Classical conditioning

Which theory is associated most with Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalysis

The scientific study of observable family, often explains human nature through conditioning

Behaviorism

Which of the following was the first female president of the APA?

Mary Calkins

The act of looking within oneself for answers on the structure of our mind:

Introspection

Who is responsible for the FIRST psychological laboratory?

Wilhelm Wundt

Who is responsible for coming up with the "animal spirits" theory?

Rene Descartes

This part of the endocrine system produces growth hormone

pituitary gland

All senses except the sense of smell are processed through this part of the brain

Thalamus

An excitatory neuron wants:

other neurons around it to fire!

Realistically, the only time we would cut a human's corpus callosum is to correct:

Epilepsy

This brain scan tracks magnetic waves in order to get an image of soft tissue, like the brain and its structure

MRI

In which of the following techniques do researchers inject a harmless, radioactive substance into the living human brain to examine activity?

PET

A participant in a study of music perception listens to music with electrodes attached to her scalp while data is collected on the activity of her brain. This technique is called:

EEG

This part of the endocrine system is responsible for overseeing and regulating the release of hormones across the entire body

Hypothalamus

These cells are the "scaffolding" of the nervous system

Glial

The Spinal cord ends about where?

At the end of your rib cage

This is the term we use to indicate each of the brain's hemispheres having specialized function

Lateralization

Where is our Auditory cortex located? (which part of the brain?)

Temporal Lobe

Where is our Primary Visual cortex located? (which part of the brain?)

Occipital Lobe

Where is our Broca's area located? (which part of the brain?)

Frontal Lobe

This lobe is located at the top of your brain

Parietal

Which part of the neuron receives the electrical signal?

Dendrites

Which part of the neuron holds the synaptic vesicles?

Terminal Buttons

What is inside our synaptic vesicles?

Neurotransmitters

Which of the following is NOT a part of the limbic system

Medulla

This lobe is located on either side of your brain

Temporal

This lobe is located in the very back of your brain

Occipital

This lobe is located in the very front of your brain

Frontal

Where is our Wernicke's area located? (which part of the brain?)

Temporal Lobe

the RIGHT occipital lobe receives information from the

Right half of both eyes

This structure allows the two hemispheres in our brains to communicate

corpus callosum

After a neuron fires, it has to take a break called the:

refractory period

What part of our nervous system is responsible for "knee jerk" type reflexes?

spinal cord

This brain scan involves an injection of radioactive fluid and observing its activity and where it travels

PET, positron emission tomography

If we connected electrodes to your scalp to see your brain activity when watching a music video, we would likely use this brain scan

EEG, electroencephalogram

A drug that as the effect of intensifying or mimicking a particular neurotransmitter is called

agonist

Where is the somatosensory cortex?

Parietal lobe

An example of a medication that can block the reuptake of certain chemicals:

SSRI

This bodily system works with our hormones

endocrine system

Significant damage to the occipital lobe may result in

loss of vision

This part of the brain has a lot to do with our fear response as well as aggression

amygdala

Activation of the parasympathetic nervous system results in:

a decrease in heart rate

A polygraph machine "detects lies" by detecting changes in:

heart rate

A person with damage to Broca's area may:

lose some or all ability to speak clearly

True or False: The Fovea is a protrusion on the retina

False

True or false: Blue is a LOW frequency color

False

Where is the basilar membrane?

In the cochlea

Information given by just one eye to help you understand your surroundings are known as:

Monocular cues

The scientific term for eardrum:

Tympanic Membrane

Which theory of color vision claims that we see color as a result of opposing retinal processes (red-blue, white-black)

Opponent-Process theory

The fluid inside our cochlea helps stimulate our hair cells so we can hear, AND

helps us maintain our balance

This concept states that we can create the illusion of motion with flashing lights blinking on an alternating schedule

Phi Phenomenon

The Visual Cliff experiment was studying:

Depth perception

Which type of processing is driven by experience and/or expectations? (breaking the structure down to see how it was built)

Top Down

Which of the following is an example of sensory adaptation?

No longer noticing the sounds of other teachers down the hall while listening to your teacher in class

The failure to notice something that is perfectly visible to you because your focus is elsewhere is called:

Inattentional Blindness

Which of the following is a high frequency color?

Turquoise

Frequency of light presents as:

color

Frequency of sound presents as:

Pitch

This colorful part of the eye helps filter out some light from our eyes.

Iris

This part of the eye serves as a protective coating around the entire eye:

cornea

What are the three bones in our middle ear called?

Malleus, Incus, Stapes

The fovea is a part of which part of the eye?

retina

In the "projector/projector screen" metaphor for the eye, which is the projector?

Lens

In the "projector/projector screen" metaphor for the eye, which is the projector screen?

fovea

This type of photoreceptor is best in low light conditions:

Rods

What shape is the optic Chiasm?

X shaped

Caffeine is a:

Stimulant

Heroin is a:

Depressant